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My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Steven Wright
/
Comedian
Funny
Science
Adopted
Evolution
Theory
Theory Of Evolution
Darwin
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People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous.
Lynn Margulis
/
Biologist
People
Ridiculous
Darwin
People Say
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It'd be really neat if I wasn't a Darwin Award winner.
Simone Giertz
/
Neat
Winner
Award
Darwin
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I think that I could see Darwin having a relationship with Asia.
Susan Oliver
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Actress
Relationship
Asia
Thinking
Darwin
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Darwin himself recorded the fact that he accepted the Malthusian idea.
Trofim Lysenko
/
Experimenter
Accepted
Darwin
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We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here.
Richard Dawkins
/
Ethologist
Principles
Darwin
Darwinian
Explains
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For all the creationists out there, Darwin's just an atheist. But he was actually agnostic.
Henry Ian Cusick
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Television Actor
Agnostic
Creationist
Darwin
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It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.
Ernst Mayr
/
Biologist
Phenomenon
Rate
Seems
Vertical
Darwin
Evolutionary
Strictly
Rates
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.
Richard Owen
/
Attention
Barnacles
Devoted
Naturalist
Structure
Mr
Darwin
Painstaking
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If Darwin's theories are true, then we have within us the physical memory of when we were fish or apes.
Robert Lepage
/
Ape
Fish
Darwin
Theories
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Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.
Ernst Mayr
/
Biologist
Certain
Evolution
Process
Selection
Variation
Articulated
Contingent
Darwin
Merely
Processes
Thus
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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
Henry Adams
/
Historian
Alone
Evidence
Evolution
Political
President
Progress
Upset
Washington
Darwin
Grant
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If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.
David Duchovny
/
Actor
Christ
Ifs
Needs
Darwin
Listens
Nietzsche
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
Daniel Dennett
/
Philosopher
Ideas
Natural Selection
People
Selection
Tradition
Uncomfortable
Darwin
Direction
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Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin.
Ryan Reynolds
/
Film Actor
Running
Controlled
Marathon
Tests
Thinking
Darwin
Test
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The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols.
Hugh Hefner
/
Publisher
Growing Up
Idols
Impact
Me People Young
Darwin
Freud
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If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.
Kirk Cameron
/
Actor
Justify
Logical
Numbers
Theory
Darwin
Extend
Horrendous
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All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on it.
Donald Johanson
/
Anthropologist
Branches
Diversification
Mammals
Tree
Certain Degree
Darwin
Degree
Drew
Undergo
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As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.
Richard Dawkins
/
Ethologist
Natural
Natural Selection
Selection
Species
Survival
Within
Between
Darwin
Differential
Himself
Pains
Point
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Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher.
Christopher Mcdougall
/
Author
Behavior
Bizarre
Ideas
Saving
Stranger
Ring
Charles
Darwin
Total
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Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience.
Trofim Lysenko
/
Experimenter
Darwin
Numerous
Obtained
Practical
Prism
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Before Darwin, our world was very religious. People saw altruism as something given by God for us to be good so that we could go to Paradise.
Isabella Rossellini
/
Film Actress
Altruism
Our World
Paradise
God Good World
Darwin
Saw
Religious People
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Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I believe in Darwin.
Michael Bloomberg
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Former Mayor Of New York City
Believe
Country
Cutting
Believe I Believe Country
Guns
Cuts
Darwin
Believe Country I Believe
Positions
Pro-Choice
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Charles Darwin got his theory, his notion of natural selection, evolution, and so did its independent discoverer, Alfred Wallace, from reading Malthus.
Paul Samuelson
/
Economist
Evolution
Independent
Natural Selection
Notion
Reading
Selection
Theory
Charles
Darwin
Discoverer
Wallace
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Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.
Trofim Lysenko
/
Experimenter
Contradiction
Darwinism
Deeper
Development
Idealistic
Philosophy
Teaching
Darwin
Materialist
Presented
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But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.
Richard Owen
/
History
Elude
Elude Us
Natural
Natural History
Statements
Tests
Vagueness
Mr
Darwin
Led
Remark
Test
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I do love a good salad, so Sweetgreen has been great. But my favorite Cambridge restaurant overall is Darwin's - that's the greatest restaurant of all time.
Jack Schlossberg
/
Cambridge
Love Time Good
Darwin
Overall
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We adore babies because they're so cute. And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are funny. This is all backwards. It is. And Darwin shows us why.
Daniel Dennett
/
Philosopher
Cute
Funny
Adore
Amused
Backwards
Babies
Course
Darwin
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A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas.
Trofim Lysenko
/
Experimenter
Evolution
Example
Ideas
Principles
Theory
Theory Of Evolution
Darwin
For Example
Major
Introduced
Materialist
Principle
Reactionary
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Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.
Richard Owen
/
Causes
Individual
Maturity
Species
Attaining
Mr
Cause
Darwin
Multitude
Perish
Soon
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Some women can't stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, and hauling around a giant stomach, and some women, for reasons probably understood by Darwin, love it.
Rich Cohen
/
Being Pregnant
Pregnant
Stomach
Understood
Bloated
Darwin
Giant
Reasons
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As an eight-year-old, I would listen to stories and biographies of Charles Darwin and Galileo. I also went to wonderful schools and had great teachers who inspired me.
John C. Mather
/
Biographies
Inspired
Great Me Who
Teachers
Charles
Darwin
Galileo
Great Teachers
Schools
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I am one who believes that the world goes from the slime to the sublime. And you can take Darwin and all your philosophers and all your ontologists, and that's the direction.
Mario Cuomo
/
Former Governor Of New York
Slime
Sublime
Believes
World Your I Am
Darwin
Philosophers
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If you are teaching Muslim sixth formers in a school, and you tell them they can't have their God and Darwin, there is a risk they will choose their God and be lost to science.
Martin Rees
/
Astronomer
Sixth
Darwin
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Darwin recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular.
George Gaylord Simpson
/
Categories
Evidence
Evolution
Darwin
Gradual
Origin
Provide
Recognized
Seemed
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Biology has progressed tremendously due to the model that Darwin put forth. But the black boxes Darwin accepted are now being opened, and our view of the world is again being shaken.
Michael Behe
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Biochemist
Accepted
Biology
Black
Boxes
Views
World
Due
Darwin
Model
Forth
Opened
Shaken
Tremendously
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Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out.
Trofim Lysenko
/
Experimenter
Errors
Guilty
Marxism
Theoretical
Free
Classics
Darwin
Fight
Himself
Pointed
Revealed
Unable
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Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe.
Richard Dawkins
/
Ethologist
Courage
Believe
Giving
Understanding
Almost Nothing
Comprehend
Darwin
Extremely
Literally
Shall
Springing
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But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex eyes told him how vision worked.
Michael Behe
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Biochemist
Comparison
Development
Sequence
Simple
Vision
Account
Biochemical
Complex
Darwin
Simply
Eyes
Systems
Worked
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In arguing that machines think, we are in the same fix as Darwin when he argued that man shares common ancestors with monkeys, or Galileo when he argued that the Earth spins on its axis.
Herbert A. Simon
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Machines
Monkeys
Ancestors
Argued
Axis
Darwin
Galileo
Shares
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Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and temperament.
Frans De Waal
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Primatologist
Arms
Body
Long
Provocative
Temperament
Descend
Ape
Bodies
Darwin
Habits
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It's an established fact. Some women can't stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, and hauling around a giant stomach, and some women, for reasons probably understood by Darwin, love it.
Rich Cohen
/
Being Pregnant
Pregnant
Stomach
Understood
Established
Bloated
Darwin
Giant
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As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm.
Neil Degrasse Tyson
/
Astrophysicist
Citizens
Paradigm
Scientist
Established
Citizen
Darwin
Einstein
Essentially
Overturn
Strongly
Whereas
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There's a tendency in American thought - maybe elsewhere, but that's the culture I know best - to default to social Darwinism, even though even Darwin noted that's a misapplication of his ideas.
N. K. Jemisin
/
Darwinism
Default
Elsewhere
Darwin
Noted
Tendency
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I'd love to meet Darwin. He caused such controversy over whether God created the earth in six days or whether we evolved over time. I'd love to discuss that with him - what a fantastic conversation!
Isabella Rossellini
/
Film Actress
Controversy
Love Time God
Caused
Love God Time
Darwin
Discuss
Six Days
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Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes.
Richard Owen
/
Genocide
Ingenious
Principles
Way
Affects
Mr
Chain
Darwin
Network
Principle
Striking
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I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time.
Franz Boas
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Anthropologist
Anthropology
Currents
Immortal
Present Time
Presenting
Time Work Hope
Due
Darwin
Work Hope Time
Helped
However
Imperfectly
Succeeded
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When most of us hear the phrase, 'survival of the fittest,' we assume it originated with Charles Darwin. It did not. The phrase doesn't exist anywhere in Darwin's first edition of 'Origin of the Species.'
Joel A. Barker
/
Species
Survival
Anywhere
Assume
Charles
Exist
Darwin
Edition
Fittest
Hear
Origin
Phrase
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I didn't know children were expected to have literary heroes, but I certainly had one, and I even identified with him at one time: Doctor Dolittle, whom I now half identify with the Charles Darwin of Beagle days.
Richard Dawkins
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Ethologist
One Time
Time Children Know
Doctor
Charles
Darwin
Literary
Identified
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Charles Darwin sailed around the world for two years on the 'Beagle,' and he had quite a bit of interest in things like the iguanas of the Galapagos, even though they were primitive compared to your average Englishman.
Seth Shostak
/
Astronomer
Average
Primitive
Charles
Darwin
Englishman
Quite A Bit
Sailed
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